The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is now accepting applications for the second year of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia from today through Oct. 31. The three-year, $9 million community-wide contest seeks the most innovative ideas in the arts to engage and enrich Philadelphia’s communities.
Grantmakers in the Arts
October 3, 2011 by Steve
Richard Kessler, who will be blogging from the 2011 GIA Conference later this week, posts to his own blog, Dewey 21C:
For about as long as I have been in this field, which is longer than I would now like to admit, I have witnessed the unfortunate tendency for us to shoot ourselves in the foot. It could be the arguments of discipline-based versus integration, it could be residencies versus field trips, aesthetic versus creative, blah, blah, blah.
October 3, 2011 by Steve
The James Irvine Foundation has launched the Exploring Engagement Fund as part of the foundation's new Arts program strategy announced in June. The Exploring Engagement Fund is designed to help nonprofit arts organizations try new ways of engaging audiences and participants.
October 2, 2011 by Steve
From Eric Roper at the Star-Tribune:
October 2, 2011 by admin
Andrew Taylor blogs about the complex issues surrounding the creation of large civic facilities. Falls right into GIA's capitalization discussion. Plan for building and equally important is realistic planning for years of operation.
October 1, 2011 by Steve
Pacific Standard Time is a collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. Beginning October 2011, over 60 cultural institutions will make their contributions to this region-wide initiative encompassing every major L.A. art movement from 1945 to 1980.
October 1, 2011 by Steve
Opinion from Paul Tetreault at Politico:
Amid today’s rancorous political climate, many of us are searching for a venue of bipartisanship, a place where we can find common ground, where we can search for what unites us, instead of what divides us.
I offer up the arts as an important starting place. Across the country, countless arts venues open their doors each night to offer thought-provoking work, forcing us to wrestle with our pre-conceived notions of other times, other cultures and other beliefs.
September 30, 2011 by admin
Grantmakers in the Arts will screen this documentary during the conference in San Francisco, Oct. 9-12. It's a fascinating look at how theatre evolves from radical to mainstream reflecting and directing the culture of the community.